The Elizabethan Dramatists as Critics1963 |
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... true and self - evident they ap- pear to us , were to him a sample of the conventional adulation appropriate to that species of writing . The same holds true of what he says in the same poem of " Marlowe's mighty line . " His real ...
... true and self - evident they ap- pear to us , were to him a sample of the conventional adulation appropriate to that species of writing . The same holds true of what he says in the same poem of " Marlowe's mighty line . " His real ...
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... true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man , poesy feigneth acts and events more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and ...
... true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man , poesy feigneth acts and events more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and ...
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... true poet can blow any virtuous humanity up to deity ? Ibid . , V i : ยท Caesar . Sweet poesy's sacred garlands crown your gentry : Which is , of all the faculties on earth , The most abstract and perfect ; if she be True - born , and ...
... true poet can blow any virtuous humanity up to deity ? Ibid . , V i : ยท Caesar . Sweet poesy's sacred garlands crown your gentry : Which is , of all the faculties on earth , The most abstract and perfect ; if she be True - born , and ...
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APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
A Variety of Demand | 172 |
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